Try this: grub2-install --efi-directory=/boot; grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
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I'm sure someone will give a better answer but this smells of a UEFI/secure boot problem. Look in your BIOS and turn those off or to legacy or "other os"
Do you have more than 1 disk in the computer? Either way, check bios for a disk setting called Intel RST. If you see that, change it to AHCI, save and reboot.
It’s just the main SSD. Thx, will try when I get home!
Tried it, no cigar. Currently reinstalling fedora. It’s taking forever and it’s at 109% (what?).
"He's wearing a hat, I don't know this guy!"
- your BIOS probably
Did you let fedora create the partitions or did you do manual partitioning?
It’s the KDE edition(should have mentioned that), which afaik doesn’t really have an automatic option. But it seems you also don’t have to set all the individual new partitions yourself. I told it to get rid of the partitions that belong to Windows (dell support/image/…) to merge it into one part that fedora would do its thing with.
KDE or GNOME its the same installer. In both they ask if you want automatic partitioning or manual.
My bet is there could be some bitlocker partition somewhere still alive. Or your bios assuming a bitlocker encrypted partition. Maybe put some of the bios security features down for testing.
Currently reinstalling, it’s going extremely slow and it’s at 109%. The bar isn’t even a tenth of the whole.
I’ll keep you guys updated.
U have to disable secure boot in uefi
Fedora works with secure boot, it shouldn’t need to be disabled.
Many things can go wrong with Secure Boot...
And by that I'm just saying he has to check his settings before enabling Secure boot. Especially on linux.
Yes it can until it not working on some vendors board